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December 29, 2008 Mars Rovers Near Five Years of Science and DiscoveryNASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity may still have big achievements ahead as they approach the fifth anniversaries of their memorable landings on Mars. |
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December 29, 2008 Epoxi Spacecraft Soars Past HomeThe NASA/JPL Epoxi spacecraft flew within 43,000 kilometers (26,700 miles) of Earth today. The Epoxi mission is scheduled to fly past comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. |
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December 23, 2008 Four Out of Six ApollosTheir names are now part of exploration history – Sea of Tranquility, Ocean of Storms, Frau Mauro, Hadley Rille, Descartes and Taurus-Littrow. |
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December 23, 2008 Researcher hopes to put fuel cells on the fast trackThe slow evolution of clean-energy solutions is about to kick into high gear, if Sossina M. Haile has anything to say about it. |
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December 23, 2008 To Go Where No Spacecraft Has Gone BeforeScattered loosely around the beltline of Earth's nearest neighbor are six silent sentinels, testaments to America's first moon program. |
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December 22, 2008 What Can Swiss Cheese Teach us About Dark Energy?About 10 years ago, scientists reached the astonishing conclusion that our universe is accelerating apart at ever-increasing speeds, stretching space and time itself like melted cheese. |
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December 19, 2008 NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global WarmingThe frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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December 18, 2008 NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to FloridaEngineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. |
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December 18, 2008 Scientists Find 'Missing' Mineral and Clues to Mars MysteriesResearchers using a powerful instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found a long-sought-after mineral on the Martian surface and, with it, unexpected clues to the Red Planet's watery past. |
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December 18, 2008 Hubble Eyes Jupiter-Ganymede ComboThe JPL-developed and -built Wide Field and Planetary 2 camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of Jupiter with its moon Ganymede. |
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December 17, 2008 NASA Instrument Inaugurates 3-D Moon ImagingDifferent wavelengths of light provide new information about a region of the moon in an image taken by NASA's instrument aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
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December 16, 2008 Students Zoom Aerial Cars in Engineering ContestTwenty-four student teams and six JPL employees raced their hand-built aerial cars in the 11th annual Invention Challenge held Friday, Dec. 12. |
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December 16, 2008 New Oceanography Mission Data Now AvailableOceanography data that will help scientists around the world better understand climate change are now available. |
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December 16, 2008 Planets Living on the EdgeA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows one unlucky lot of stars, born into a dangerous neighborhood. |
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December 15, 2008 Titan's Volcanoes Give Nasa Spacecraft Chilly ReceptionRecent Cassini spacecraft flybys of Titan have revealed new information about possible ice volcanoes on the small moon. |
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December 15, 2008 Phoenix Site on Mars May be in Dry Climate Cycle PhaseThe Martian arctic soil that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander dug into this year is very cold and very dry. |
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December 15, 2008 Saturn's Dynamic Moon Enceladus Shows More Signs of ActivityThe closer scientists look at Saturn's small moon Enceladus, the more they find evidence of an active world. |
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December 11, 2008 Epoxi Spacecraft Burns for HomeThe NASA/JPL Epoxi spacecraft fired its engines today to prepare for a Dec. 29 Earth flyby. The Epoxi mission is scheduled to fly past comet Hartley 2 in 2010. |
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December 11, 2008 Mars Orbiter Completes First Phase of Science MissionNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. |
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December 10, 2008 Astronomers Find the Two Dimmest Stellar BulbsIt's a tie! The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin "failed" stars, each of which shines feebly with only one millionth the light of our sun. |
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December 10, 2008 What's in a Name?Whether referred to as global warming or climate change, the consequences of the changes currently being observed in Earth's climate system could be considerable. |
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December 9, 2008 Oscillation Rules as the Pacific CoolsThe latest image of sea-surface height measurements from the U.S./French Jason-1 oceanography satellite shows the Pacific Ocean remains locked in a strong, cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a large, long-lived pattern of climate variability in the Pacific associated with a general cooling of Pacific waters. |
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December 9, 2008 Hubble Telescope Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar PlanetNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. |
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December 8, 2008 Rivers of Gas Flow Around Stars in New Space ImageA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material. |
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December 8, 2008 New 3-D Views from Mars Reconnaissance OrbiterThe team operating the highest-resolution camera orbiting Mars has posted 362 stereo images, providing three-dimensional views of mounds, canyons, gullies and other features. |
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December 4, 2008 Next NASA Mars Mission Rescheduled for 2011NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011. |
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December 4, 2008 NASA Orbiter Finds Martian Rock Record With 10 Beats to the BarClimate cycles persisting for millions of years on ancient Mars left a record of rhythmic patterns in thick stacks of sedimentary rock layers, revealed in three-dimensional detail by a telescopic camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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December 3, 2008 Vivid Death of a StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope contributed to this view of the remains of a star whose death was witnessed on Earth centuries ago. |
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December 3, 2008 New Study Finds Sumatra Still at High Risk for Big QuakeTwo large quakes beneath Sumatra in 2007 did not adequately relieve built-up stress, according to a study that includes a JPL researcher and radar data. |
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December 1, 2008 NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars LanderAfter nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep. |
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November 26, 2008 Enceladus Jets: Are They Wet or Just Wild?Scientists continue to search for the cause of the geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. |
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November 26, 2008 Public Presentation About Mars Orbiter's Images and FindingsMars scientists will present dramatic images and key findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at a free evening program in Pasadena on Thursday, Dec. 4, celebrating completion of the mission's first two-year science phase. |
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November 24, 2008 NASA Prepares for New Juno Mission to JupiterNASA is officially moving forward on a mission to conduct an unprecedented, in-depth study of Jupiter. |
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November 20, 2008 Dawn Glides Into New YearNASA's Dawn spacecraft shut down its ion propulsion system today as scheduled. |
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November 20, 2008 NASA Spacecraft Detects Buried Glaciers on MarsNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet. |
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November 20, 2008 JPL's Hubble Camera Chips In To Galactic Core PortraitJPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 contributed to a new portrait of one of the universe's most brilliant star-making galaxies. |
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November 20, 2008 Magazine Honors a Star of NuSTARPrincipal investigators for two JPL-managed missions -- Fiona Harrison of Caltech, with the NuSTAR mission, and Maria Zuber of MIT, with the Grail moon mission -- are honored by U.S. News & World Report as two of "America's Best Leaders." |
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November 19, 2008 Site List Narrows For NASA's Next Mars LandingFour intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory. |
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November 19, 2008 NASA Plans Test of 'Electronic Nose' on International Space StationNASA astronauts on Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can "smell" dangerous chemicals in the air. |
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November 19, 2008 Phoenix Mars Lander Team Wins Innovation AwardThe University of Arizona has received an Arizona Governor's Innovator of the Year Award for leading NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission. |
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November 18, 2008 NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars RoverNASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. |
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November 18, 2008 NASA's Quikscat Ocean-Observing Satellite Mission HonoredThe Earth-observing satellite has been recognized for helping scientists better understand our home planet. |
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November 18, 2008 NASA Tests First Deep-Space InternetNASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. |
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November 18, 2008 Stardust Spacecraft Burns For HomeThe NASA/JPL Stardust spacecraft fired its engines today to prepare for a Jan. 14, 2009, Earth flyby. Stardust is scheduled to fly past comet Tempel 1 in 2011. |
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November 17, 2008 JPL Instrument Observes Changes in Big Antarctic GlacierJPL satellite data have helped scientists crack the case of a speeding Antarctic glacier. Understanding glacial flow processes can improve sea level forecasts. |
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November 17, 2008 Clues from Mars Odyssey Support Oceans TheoryMapping of potassium, thorium and iron concentrations on Mars provides evidence for a controversial idea that oceans covered about a third of ancient Mars. |
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November 17, 2008 Water Vapor Doubles Carbon Dioxide's Warming EffectA JPL instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite has helped researchers estimate more precisely than ever before the heat-trapping effect of water in the air. |
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November 14, 2008 Mars Rover Team Sets Low-Power Plan for NASA's SpiritAfter assessing data received from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on Thursday, mission controllers laid out plans for the rover to conserve its modest energy during the next few weeks. |
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November 13, 2008 NASA Mars Lander Receives Award From MagazineNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has won recognition from Popular Science magazine as an innovation worthy of the publication's "Best of What's New" Grand Award in the aviation and space category. |
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November 13, 2008 Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive from NASA's Spirit RoverNASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of "She's talking!" among the rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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November 13, 2008 Hubble Directly Observes a Planet Orbiting Another StarNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. |
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November 13, 2008 Sizing Up Near-Earth AsteroidsJPL scientist Amy Mainzer talks about our nearest neighbors and how the upcoming Wide-field Infrared Explorer mission will observe them. |
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November 12, 2008 Mars Rover Spirit Remains Quiet as Dust Storm WeakensA dust storm that has reduced power to NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is clearing, but the Spirit's status remains unknown on Wednesday. |
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November 12, 2008 NASA's Carbon-Sniffing Satellite Sleuth Arrives at Launch SiteNASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin final launch preparations. |
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November 12, 2008 Cassini Finds Mysterious New Aurora on SaturnSaturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora revealed itself to one of the infrared instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. |
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November 11, 2008 Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet IngredientsShock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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November 10, 2008 Dust Storm Cuts Energy Supply of NASA Mars Rover SpiritA dust storm on Mars has cut into the amount of sunlight reaching the solar array on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, leaving the rover in a vulnerable state. |
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November 10, 2008 Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work on Red PlanetNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months. |
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November 10, 2008 JPL Instrument Circling MoonJPL's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument is aboard India's moon voyage, Chandrayaan-1. A Sat., Nov. 8 maneuver placed the craft in orbit around the moon. |
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November 6, 2008 NASA Science Showcased at Supercomputing ConferenceNASA will highlight some inspiring science and engineering achievements at an international conference in Austin, Texas, Nov. 15-21. The conference includes research from JPL and five other NASA field centers. |
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November 6, 2008 JPL Gravity Satellites Gauge Alaskan Glacier Ice LossA new study makes the most precise measurements yet of ice loss in Gulf of Alaska mountain glaciers, a region contributing substantially to sea level rise. |
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November 5, 2008 Exciting Times for CassiniCassini scientist Amanda Hendrix talks about in-depth investigations of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. |
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November 4, 2008 JPL Instrument Moon-BoundJPL's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument is aboard India’s maiden moon voyage, Chandrayaan-1. A maneuver performed today (Tues., Nov. 4) placed the Indian spacecraft on a path toward the moon. |
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November 3, 2008 NASA Hearing Daily From Weak Phoenix Mars Lander (Nov. 3)NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has communicated with controllers daily since Oct. 30 through relays to Mars orbiters. |
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November 1, 2008 Cassini Beams Back Images of EnceladusCassini sends back new pictures of Saturn's moon Enceladus, showing striking detail of the tiger striped region and jet sources on the moon's south pole. |
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October 31, 2008 Cassini to Swing Past EnceladusNASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly by Saturn's moon Enceladus on Fri., Oct. 31. Join mission members as they blog about the upcoming enoounter. |
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October 31, 2008 NASA Chooses Small-Business Innovation ProposalsNASA has selected 142 proposals for possible contract awards in its Small Business Innovation Research program. JPL is providing technical oversight for 19 of these projects to develop technology for future missions. |
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October 31, 2008 'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope ImageNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has lifted the veil off a ghost known to haunt the local universe, providing new insight into the formation and evolution of galaxies. |
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October 31, 2008 Sea Level Monitoring Enters New EraIn a major milestone leading to full service, satellite operations for the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 have been handed over to NOAA. |
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October 30, 2008 Phoenix Mission Status ReportNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander communicated with an orbiter Thursday. Engineers continue assessing the lander's status and steps needed for returning to science activities. |
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October 30, 2008 NASA to Hold Small Business SymposiumNASA will host the inaugural Small Business Symposium and Awards Ceremony Nov. 17-18 in Washington, DC. |
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October 30, 2008 JPL's Hubble Camera Keeps on ClickingThe Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, designed and built by JPL, is back in the image business. It has been a workhorse on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope since 1993. |
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October 30, 2008 Spooky Creatures on the ProwlGhosts and goblins appear to be making their annual haunt around Earth and Saturn. These enhanced images capture a spacey view of Halloween. |
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October 29, 2008 Phoenix Mission Status ReportNASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander entered safe mode late yesterday in response to a low-power fault brought on by deteriorating weather conditions. |
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October 28, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival ChallengesIn a race against time and the elements, engineers with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission hope to extend the lander's survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters, starting today. |
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October 28, 2008 NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter MarsNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars, suggesting that liquid water remained on the planet's surface a billion years later than scientists believed. |
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October 28, 2008 The Great Cosmology ChallengeCosmologists at JPL and other institutions are challenging researchers to come up with better statistical tools for probing dark matter and dark energy. |
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October 27, 2008 Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid BeltsNew observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that the nearest planetary system to our own has two asteroid belts. Our own solar system has just one. |
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October 23, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Team Wins National Space Club AwardThe National Space Club presented NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission team with its Astronautics Engineer Award last night in Huntsville, Ala. |
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October 22, 2008 JPL Instrument Hitches Ride to MoonJPL's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument is carried aboard India’s maiden moon voyage, Chandrayaan-1, which launched Tuesday, Oct. 21. |
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October 22, 2008 Shakeout for Southern CaliforniaGeophysicist Maggi Glasscoe previews an upcoming earthquake preparedness drill in southern California. |
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October 21, 2008 Phoenix Lander Finishes Soil Delivery to Onboard LabsNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has finished scooping soil samples to deliver to its onboard laboratories, and is now preparing to analyze samples already obtained. |
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October 21, 2008 Scientists Seek Climate Clues From Atop Hawaiian VolcanoJPL scientists, satellites and ground-based instruments are contributing to a month-long, university-led experiment on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano to track water vapor in Earth's sub-tropics, which affects global temperatures, and rainfall in North America. |
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October 21, 2008 Climate Change Seeps Into the SeaScientists hope a new NASA mission will help them better understand how Earth's ocean swallows the bitter pill known as carbon dioxide. |
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October 20, 2008 Enceladus Blog: Catching Our BreathsCassini scientist Amanda Hendrix blogs about the recent flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and looks forward to the next flyby on Oct. 31. |
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October 17, 2008 Phoenix Gets Bonus Soil SampleThe Mars Phoenix Lander's robotic arm successfully delivered soil into oven six of the lander's thermal and evolved-gas analyzer (TEGA) on Monday, Oct. 13, or Martian day (sol) 137 of the mission. |
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October 15, 2008 Phoenix Mars Mission Honored by Popular MechanicsThree members of the Phoenix team were recognized for leading the successful mission to Mars: Barry Goldstein, the Phoenix project manager from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Peter Smith, the principal investigator from the University of Arizona, Tuscon; and Ed Sedivy, the Phoenix program manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver. |
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October 15, 2008 Martian Polar Layer Erosion Looks StrikingIn a newly released image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, an unusual mound punctuates dramatic stripes of Martian polar terrain where icy layers are eroding. |
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October 15, 2008 Phoenix Braves Dust and WindsHigh winds and dust devils blew through Phoenix's landing site last weekend. These two short videos show them in action. |
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October 14, 2008 Phoenix Weathers Dust StormThe Phoenix Lander over the weekend successfully weathered a regional dust storm that temporarily lowered its solar power, and the team is back investigating the Red Planet's northern plains. |
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October 13, 2008 JPL's Jon Giorgini Honored With Masursky AwardJon Giorgini, an engineer at JPL, has received the prestigious Harold Masursky Award, presented by the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences. |
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October 13, 2008 Giant Cyclones at Saturn's Poles Create a Swirl of MysteryNew images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal a giant cyclone at Saturn's north pole, and show that a similarly monstrous cyclone churning at Saturn's south pole is powered by Earth-like storm patterns. |
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October 13, 2008 NASA's Spitzer Gets Sneak Peek Inside Comet HolmesWhen comet Holmes unexpectedly erupted in 2007, professional and amateur astronomers around the world turned their telescopes toward the spectacular event. |
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October 10, 2008 Phoenix Digs MarsNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has been digging and excavating Martian soil with its nearly 8-foot-long robotic arm. New images, like this one in 3D, show the trenchwork taken on Oct. 7. |
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October 10, 2008 Cassini Sends Home Data From Close FlybyFollow along as the Cassini science and engineering teams blog about the Oct. 9 close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Post your comments. |
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October 9, 2008 NASA's Mars Odyssey Shifting Orbit for Extended MissionThe longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets. |
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October 9, 2008 NASA Maps Shed Light on Carbon Dioxide's Global NatureA NASA/university team has published the first global satellite maps of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere, an area about 8 kilometers, or 5 miles, above Earth. |
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October 8, 2008 Phoenix Lander Digs and Analyzes Soil as Darkness GathersAs fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis. |
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October 8, 2008 Splashy Portrait Helps Explain How Stars FormDifferent wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolors in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, star-forming region. |
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October 7, 2008 Artists and Astronomers 'Observe' the Universe TogetherA new exhibition opening in Pasadena brings artists and astronomers together to create original pieces of art. The project is a collaboration between the Art Center College of Design and NASA's Spitzer Science Center. |
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October 6, 2008 Small Asteroid to Light Up Sky Over AfricaAn asteroid measuring several feet in diameter is expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Sudan before dawn Tuesday, setting off a potentially brilliant natural fireworks display. |
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October 6, 2008 Cassini Plans Doubleheader Flybys of Saturn's Geyser MoonAs major league baseball readies for the World Series, NASA's Cassini team will come to bat twice this month when the spacecraft flies by Saturn's geyser moon, Enceladus. |
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October 2, 2008 NASA Selects Science Teams for Astrobiology InstituteNASA has awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each, to 10 research teams from across the country, including two from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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October 2, 2008 Stellar Landscape for 10 Years of Hubble HeritageThis landscape-like picture of a star-forming region contains data taken earlier this year with JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. |
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October 1, 2008 Infrared Echoes Give NASA's Spitzer a Supernova FlashbackHot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments, say scientists using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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September 29, 2008 NASA Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid PastNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. |
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September 25, 2008 NASA Stardust Capsule to Go on Display at SmithsonianHaving returned the world's first particles from a comet, NASA's Stardust sample return capsule will join the collection of flight icons in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. |
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September 25, 2008 NASA Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing on MarsNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone. |
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September 25, 2008 Summer Interns: In Their Own WordsMore than 300 high school and college interns worked at JPL this summer in areas such as robotic hardware systems and nano- and micro-systems. New web videos profile two of the students. |
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September 23, 2008 NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More TestsNASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test. |
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September 23, 2008 Ulysses Reveals Global Solar Wind Plasma Output at 50-Year LowData from the Ulysses spacecraft show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings became available. |
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September 23, 2008 Mars Lander Moves Rock to Study What's BeneathNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander slid a rock into a nearby trench Monday to gain access to the soil under the rock. |
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September 23, 2008 Cool Summer, Warm Future for Southern CaliforniaSummer 2008 goes down in the books as cooler than normal but don't expect this summer's respite from the heat to continue. |
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September 22, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Lander Might Peek Under a RockIf the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander can nudge a rock aside today, scientists on the Phoenix team would like to see what's underneath. |
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September 22, 2008 NASA's Mars Rover to Head Toward Bigger CraterNASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years. |
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September 19, 2008 Mars Mineral Studies Continue to GrowMore than 1,500 newly released images from a spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will boost understanding of what minerals exist where on the Martian surface. |
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September 19, 2008 Morning Frost in Martian TrenchA Sept. 18 false-color image from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows morning frost and subsurface ice in a trench where the lander was working. |
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September 19, 2008 Summer as a Rocket ScientistSix college students on a fellowship program spent their summer at JPL working on a mission that will one day image Earth using technology that is like a "camera on steroids." |
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September 18, 2008 Water Hit With Young Star's Best ShotWater is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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September 18, 2008 NASA Orbiter Images Suggest Mars Had Long Wet SpellWater may have played a role in shaping parts of the Martian landscape a billion years longer than previously indicated, according to interpretation of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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September 18, 2008 Images From More Than 1,000 Mars Observations PostedNewly posted images from more than 1,000 observations by the high resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal details as small as a desk. |
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September 17, 2008 Shake, Rattle and Roll: James Webb Telescope Components Pass TestsYou might think that shaking and freezing a state-of-the-art, meticulously crafted machine is a bad idea. |
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September 17, 2008 Upcoming Lecture: Earthquakes in Southern CaliforniaLocal earthquake scientist Lucy Jones will assess earthquake risks and discuss ongoing steps to prepare for major quakes. The lecture date has changed to Sept. 25 and 26. |
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September 17, 2008 Phoenix Images Discarded Heat ShieldA new color high-resolution image from the Phoenix Mars Lander shows its crumpled heat shield about 150 meters away from the spacecraft. |
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September 16, 2008 More Soil Delivered to Phoenix LabNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully delivered more soil to its Wet Chemistry Laboratory. |
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September 13, 2008 Ike Roared Ashore in TexasHurricane Ike is seen in infrared by NASA's Aqua spacecraft about an hour after making landfall Sept. 13 in Galveston, Texas. |
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September 12, 2008 Ike Begins Battering Gulf CoastA monstrously large, extremely dangerous Hurricane Ike is already affecting the Gulf Coast. NASA's Aqua spacecraft took this infrared image early Sept. 12. |
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September 11, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Lander Sees, Feels Martian Whirlwinds in ActionNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has photographed several dust devils dancing across the arctic plain this week and sensed a dip in air pressure as one passed near the lander. |
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September 11, 2008 QuikScat Maps Historic Sea Ice ChangesQuikScat has detected a recent major melting of sea ice (depicted in red and magenta) that is clearing Arctic sea routes. |
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September 11, 2008 Ike Advances on the Gulf CoastA very large and growing Hurricane Ike steams toward the Texas coast in this Sept. 11 afternoon infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft. |
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September 9, 2008 Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated for Last of Lander's Wet Lab CellsThe next soil sample that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix's wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix team's current plans. |
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September 8, 2008 Rosetta Images Asteroid SteinsOn its way to a 2014 rendezvous with a comet, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Steins on Sept. 5. JPL manages NASA's participation in the mission and supplied the Microwave Instrument. |
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September 8, 2008 Phoenix Monitors Frosty Clumps on its StrutsThe latest look underneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows growth of clumps that are adhering to a leg strut. |
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September 5, 2008 Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's MoonsNASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. |
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September 5, 2008 September Peak Month for Atlantic HurricanesWhy is September the peak month for hurricanes? NASA oceanographer Bill Patzert provides some insights. |
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September 5, 2008 East Coast Braces for Hanna's ArrivalPurples denote Tropical Storm Hanna's strongest winds (left image) and highest, coldest cloud tops (right image) in these Sept. 5 views from NASA's QuikScat and Aqua spacecraft, respectively. |
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September 4, 2008 Spiky Probe on NASA Mars Lander Raises Vapor QuandaryA fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside Phoenix, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly and perplexingly dry. |
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September 4, 2008 Rosetta Set To Fly By AsteroidOn its way to a 2014 rendezvous with a comet, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will fly by asteroid Steins on Sept. 5. JPL manages NASA's participation in the Rosetta mission. |
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September 4, 2008 Unlikable Ike Looms LargeHurricane Ike marches west in this Sept. 4 early morning infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft. Ike is a compact but powerful storm with maximum sustained winds of 217 kilometers (135 miles) per hour. |
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September 3, 2008 NASA's Carl Sagan Fellows to Study Extraterrestrial WorldsNASA announced Wednesday the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other stars. |
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September 3, 2008 Hanna and Her SisterWhile Tropical Storm Hanna moves toward the Bahamas, in the eastern Atlantic, her younger sister, Tropical Storm Josephine, begins her westward trek in these Sept. 3 infrared images from NASA's Aqua spacecraft. |
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September 2, 2008 Hanna Goes to HaitiTropical Storm Hanna follows in Gustav's footsteps, affecting Haiti and the Dominican Republic in this Sept. 2 afternoon infrared image from NASA's Aqua satellite. Hanna is expected to become a hurricane tomorrow and may affect the entire U.S. eastern seaboard by this weekend. |
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September 1, 2008 Analysis Begins on Deepest Soil SampleScientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains. |
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September 1, 2008 Gustav Grinds AshoreThis Sept. 1 early morning infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft shows Hurricane Gustav about six hours before the Category Two storm made landfall in Louisiana. |
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August 31, 2008 Gustav Churns Toward Northern Gulf CoastMajor Hurricane Gustav continues its northward churn through the Gulf of Mexico in this early morning Aug. 31 infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft. |
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August 30, 2008 Gustav Grows, Sets Its Eye on Cuba, GulfThe clearly defined eye of powerful Hurricane Gustav prepares to strike western Cuba in this Aug. 30 afternoon infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft. |
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August 29, 2008 NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level GroundNASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September. |
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August 29, 2008 NASA Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities on MarsNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, having completed its 90-day primary mission, is continuing its science collection activities. |
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August 29, 2008 Gustav Strengthens in the CaribbeanA swirl of purple marks the high, cold clouds atop Hurricane Gustav in this Aug. 29 afternoon image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft. |
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August 28, 2008 Will Gustav Dodge the Gulf's Warmest Waters?Tropical Storm Gustav's path through the warm ocean circulation features of the Gulf of Mexico this weekend, shown on this Aug. 28 map created with data from NASA's Jason-1 satellite, may play a significant role in its potential intensification. |
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August 26, 2008 NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing out of Victoria CraterNASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers. |
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August 25, 2008 Digs Deeper As Third Month Nears EndThe next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug. |
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August 25, 2008 Fay's Rains Still Drenching the SoutheastWhile now a tropical depression, Fay continues spreading heavy rain and winds over a wide swath of the U.S. Southeast, as seen in this Aug. 25 afternoon infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft. |
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August 22, 2008 Generations of Stars Pose for Family PortraitA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells a tale of life and death amidst a rich family history. |
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August 22, 2008 Fay Refuses To FadeTropical Storm Fay, seen in this Aug. 22 afternoon infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft, continues its slow westward trek across northern Florida, heading for the Gulf of Mexico and a probable fourth U.S. landfall. |
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August 21, 2008 Mid-Depth Soil Collected for Lab Test On NASA's Mars LanderNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer. |
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August 20, 2008 Young Thinkers Get to Tinker at JPLMore than 300 students have swelled JPL's ranks this summer, hailing from high schools, community colleges, four-year universities and graduate schools across the country. |
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August 20, 2008 Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site by TrenchingNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure. |
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August 20, 2008 Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and LargeBlack holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass. |
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August 20, 2008 Fay Stalls Over FloridaTropical Storm Fay, seen in this Aug. 20 afternoon infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft, continues to dump torrential rain over Florida. |
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August 19, 2008 Fay Feeds on FloridaTropical Storm Fay engulfs Southern and Central Florida in this QuikScat image taken Tues., Aug. 19, at 7:33 a.m. EDT. |
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August 18, 2008 Floridians Prep for Fay's FuryTropical Storm Fay advances on Florida in this Aug. 18 NASA Aqua infrared image. Fay is expected to make landfall Tuesday. |
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August 14, 2008 Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon EnceladusCassini has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus. |
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August 14, 2008 Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust ParticleNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope. |
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August 13, 2008 Portrait of a Warming Ocean, Rising Sea LevelsGlobal sea level is on the rise, but the rise isn't uniform across the ocean. In this image, white and red show where sea level has risen the most; purple and blue where it has dropped. |
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August 11, 2008 Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus FlybyShortly after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. |
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August 11, 2008 JPL Camera Marks Hubble's 100,000th OrbitTo commemorate Hubble's 100,000th orbit on Aug. 10, scientists used a JPL-designed and -built camera onboard the space telescope snapped this dazzling region of a nebula 170,000 light-years away. |
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August 9, 2008 Soil Studies Continue at Site of Phoenix Mars LanderVibration of the screen above a laboratory oven on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Saturday got enough soil into the oven begin analysis of the sample. |
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August 9, 2008 Follow Monday's Enceladus Flyby on NASA BlogCassini is flying about 30 miles above the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Monday, Aug. 11. Mission scientists and engineers will update the flyby blog regularly. Send your comments. |
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August 7, 2008 Cassini Prepares to Swoop by Saturn's Geyser-Spewing MoonFractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11. |
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August 7, 2008 Martian Clays Tell Story of a Wet PastLayers of clay-rich rock at a potential landing site for future Mars rovers suggest a long-term history of liquid water activity, possibly including hot water, at the now-dry site. |
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August 5, 2008 Phoenix Mars Team Opens Window on Scientific ProcessMission scientists today discussed their current investigation into percholate salts detected in Martian soil. The salts are neither good nor bad for life, said one scientist, but do make us reassess how we think about life on Mars. |
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August 5, 2008 Edouard Starts Its Trek Deep In the Heart of TexasEdouard, now a tropical depression, has sloshed its way north of Houston on a trek that will take it "deep in the heart of Texas." This infrared NASA Aqua image was taken at 12:17 PDT August 5. |
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August 4, 2008 NASA Spacecraft Analyzing Martian Soil DataScientists are analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy. |
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August 4, 2008 Tropical Storm Edouard Steams Toward Texas/LouisianaFed by warm Gulf of Mexico waters, Tropical Storm Edouard gathers strength in the northern Gulf, as seen in this infrared image taken early August 4 from NASA's Aqua spacecraft. |
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July 31, 2008 NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission ExtendedLaboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. |
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July 30, 2008 NASA Confirms Liquid Lake on Saturn MoonNASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane. |
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July 30, 2008 Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 Begins Mapping OceansLess than a month after launch, the new NASA-French space agency Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps. |
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July 30, 2008 Quake Demonstrates Ongoing Forecasting ExperimentThis week's magnitude 5.4 earthquake in Southern California marks another demonstration of an ongoing experiment by a NASA/Department of Energy-funded research team to forecast the location of large earthquakes in California. |
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July 29, 2008 Close-Up Images of 'Snow Queen' Show ChangesA distinctive hard-surface feature called "Snow Queen" beneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander visibly changed sometime between mid-June and mid-July, close-up images from the Robotic Arm Camera show. |
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July 28, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky SoilScientists and engineers on NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission spent the weekend examining how the icy soil on Mars interacts with the scoop on the lander's robotic arm, while trying different techniques to deliver a sample to one of the instruments. |
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July 27, 2008 Phoenix Revises Method to Deliver Icy SamplePhoenix's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's oven. |
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July 26, 2008 Lander Collects Icy Soil But Needs to Work on DeliveryNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm collected a more than adequate amount of icy soil for baking in one of the lander's ovens but will need to adjust how it delivers samples. |
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July 25, 2008 Phoenix Scoop Ready for SamplingNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm scoop is primed and ready to collect a soil sample from the northern region of Mars to analyze for the presence of water and other possible ingredients. |
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July 24, 2008 Trench on Mars Ready for Next Sampling by NASA LanderPhoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water. |
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July 24, 2008 Dolly Ready to Say So Long, Dearie to Texas, Hello to MexicoA pair of infrared images from JPL's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder show the progression of now Tropical Storm Dolly from Wednesday afternoon, local time, to early Thursday morning, July 24. Dolly is likely to cause widespread flooding. |
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July 23, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares for Next Sample AnalysisThe latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander. |
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July 23, 2008 Dolly Starts Her Whirl Through South TexasNASA's QuikScat satellite captured Hurricane Dolly in her Tuesday clothes last night at 7:24 p.m. Central Time. |
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July 22, 2008 Phoenix Completes Longest Work ShiftPhoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission. |
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July 22, 2008 NASA's JPL, Ames Win 2007 NASA Software of Year AwardNASA has selected JPL as one of two winners of the agency's 2007 Software of the Year Award for software to help detect planets outside our solar system. |
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July 22, 2008 New NASA 'Fire and Smoke' Web Page Shows Latest Fire Views, ResearchNASA satellites, aircraft and research know-how, including resources and expertise from JPL, comprise a wealth of cutting-edge tools to help firefighters battle wildfires. |
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July 22, 2008 Texas Prepares To Say Hello To DollyA still growing Tropical Storm Dolly bridges the gap of the Gulf of Mexico in this July 22 infrared image from NASA's Aqua satellite. Dolly is expected to make landfall Wednesday as a hurricane. |
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July 21, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the NightTo coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time. |
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July 21, 2008 Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel GalaxyThe Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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July 18, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests with RaspThe team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground. |
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July 17, 2008 NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien WorldNASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon passing in front of Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view. |
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July 17, 2008 3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars LanderNASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. |
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July 17, 2008 Three Red Spots Mix it Up on JupiterA new sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere. |
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July 16, 2008 NASA Spacecraft Shows Diverse, Wet Environments on Ancient MarsTwo studies based on data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life. |
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July 16, 2008 Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects SampleA powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop. |
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July 16, 2008 JPL Enters the BlogosphereA new JPL blog features scientists and engineers who will offer insights into their areas of expertise - ranging from Mars, Saturn and other solar system bodies to the universe beyond. Topics closer to home, like climate change, will also be discussed. Public comments are welcome. |
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July 16, 2008 Ocean Surface a Boon for Extreme Event Forecasts, WarningsFor humans in the path of destructive hurricanes and tsunamis, an accurate warning of the pending event is critical for damage control and survival. |
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July 15, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to Begin Rasping Frozen LayerA powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice. |
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July 15, 2008 Brightest Star in the Galaxy Has New CompetitionA contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center. |
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July 14, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Extending TrenchNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens. |
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July 11, 2008 New Nano-Device to See Invisible LightJPL physicist Boris S. Karasik co-leads a research team that will help astronomers see invisible light. |
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July 10, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Uses Soil Probe and Swiss ScopeNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched Martian soil with a fork-like probe for the first time and begun using a microscope that examines shapes of tiny particles by touching them. |
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July 10, 2008 Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found in Distant UniverseAstronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year. |
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July 9, 2008 Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy SourcesEfforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA. |
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July 8, 2008 Sample-Collection Tests by NASA's Phoenix Lander ContinueNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA). |
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July 8, 2008 NASA Mission to be Crystal Ball into Oceans' Future, Mirror to the PastImagine the lives that could be saved from flash floods, and the homes that could be spared from the effects of coastline erosion if only scientists could more accurately predict the dynamics of Earth's often unpredictable oceans. |
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July 7, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry SampleNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its Robotic Arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received from Phoenix on Sunday night confirmed. |
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July 7, 2008 Spitzer Team Member Wins Gold MedalSpitzer science team member Giovanni Fazio has won a prestigious award for his outstanding contributions to space science. |
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July 2, 2008 Phoenix to Bake Ice-Rich Sample Next WeekThe next sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer will be ice-rich. |
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July 2, 2008 Voyager Squashes View of Solar SystemScientists using data from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft have observed the bubble of solar wind surrounding the solar system is not round, but has a squashed shape. |
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July 1, 2008 Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil for AnalysisNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarged the "Snow White" trench and scraped up little piles of icy soil on Saturday, June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. |
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July 1, 2008 Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial FireworksObservations from JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 contributed to this image showing a delicate ribbon of gas floating eerily in space. |
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July 1, 2008 New Mission Helps Offshore Industries Dodge Swirling WatersHurricanes aren't the only hazards spinning up in the Gulf of Mexico -- they have a liquid counterpart in the waters below called ocean eddies. |
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June 30, 2008 Smoke Shrouds Idyllic California CoastFires near the scenic California resort of Big Sur burn unchecked in this thermal infrared NASA/JPL satellite image taken Sunday, June 29. |
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June 27, 2008 Phoenix Scrapes to Icy Soil in WonderlandNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench. |
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June 27, 2008 Cassini to Earth: 'Mission Accomplished, But New Questions Await!'NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets-Titan and Enceladus. |
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June 27, 2008 100 Years of Space Rock: The Tunguska ImpactAt around 7:17 on the morning of June 30, 1908, a man based at the trading post at Vanavara in Siberia is sitting on his front porch. |
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June 26, 2008 Phoenix Returns Treasure Trove for ScienceNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander performed its first wet chemistry experiment on Martian soil flawlessly yesterday, returning a wealth of data that for Phoenix scientists was like winning the lottery. |
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June 25, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Soil in Chemistry Lab, Team Discusses Next StepsNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory today for the first time. |
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June 25, 2008 NASA Spacecraft Reveal Largest Crater in Solar SystemNew analysis of Mars' terrain using NASA spacecraft observations reveals what appears to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system. |
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June 25, 2008 NASA Mission to Answer Lingering Questions From Deep Blue SeaOcean tides and currents across the globe still hold within their watery grasp the key to unanswered questions about our planet. |
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June 25, 2008 Study Zooms In on Ozone LossA JPL scientist co-authored a study in tomorrow's (June 26) Nature, finding that sea spray and emissions from microscopic ocean plants are destroying ozone in the lower atmosphere over the tropical Atlantic Ocean at a rate 50 percent higher than predicted by climate models. |
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June 25, 2008 Stardust-Next Burns for Comet FlybyThe Stardust-Next flight team fired their spacecraft's engine today to refine its trajectory. This trajectory sets the stage for an encounter with comet Tempel 1 on February 14, 2011. |
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June 24, 2008 Phoenix Poised to Deliver Sample for Wet ChemistryNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander repositioned its robotic arm slightly today and is now poised to deliver Martian soil to its wet chemistry laboratory. |
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June 23, 2008 Phoenix Lander Prepares for Microscopy, Wet Chemistry on MarsNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29. |
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June 23, 2008 New NASA Website Focuses on Global Climate ChangeA new website from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is devoted to educating the public about Earth's changing climate. |
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June 21, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to MicroscopeNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Saturday beamed back images showing that Phoenix's Robotic Arm successfully sprinkled soil onto the delivery port of the lander's Optical Microscope. |
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June 20, 2008 NASA Launches Ocean Satellite to Keep a Weather, Climate Eye OpenA new oceanography satellite launched on a globe-circling voyage to continue charting sea level, a vital indicator of global climate change. |
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June 20, 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Frozen WaterScientists relishing confirmation of water ice near the surface beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander anticipate even bigger discoveries from the robotic mission in the weeks ahead. |
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June 19, 2008 Bright Chunks at Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been IceDice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it. |
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June 18, 2008 NASA Mars Lander to Dig; Team Probes Flash MemoryNASA's Phoenix Mars Mission generated an unusually high volume of spacecraft housekeeping data on Tuesday causing the loss of some non-critical science data. |
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June 17, 2008 Phoenix Makes First Trench in Science PreserveNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began digging in an area called "Wonderland" early Tuesday, taking its first scoop of soil from a polygonal surface feature within the "national park" region that mission scientists have been preserving for science. |
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June 16, 2008 NASA Mission Poised to Help Us Gauge Our Rising SeasThe newest ocean-observing satellite takes flight this week to make precise measurements of rising global sea level. |
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June 16, 2008 NASA Phoenix Lander Bakes Sample, Arm Digs DeeperOne of the ovens on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continued baking its first sample of Martian soil over the weekend, while the Robotic Arm dug deeper into the soil to learn more about white material first revealed on June 3. |
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June 16, 2008 Students Chosen as Cassini Scientists for a DayFour students have won the Cassini Scientist for a Day contest, with most choosing Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, as the best place for scientists to study using NASA's Cassini spacecraft. |
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June 13, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Inspects Delivered Soil SamplesNew observations from Phoenix provide the most magnified view ever seen of Martian soil, showing particles clumping together even at the smallest visible scale. |
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June 13, 2008 As Jason 2 Awaits Launch, Jason 1 Marks a MilestoneWith final preparations underway for next week's launch of NASA's Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2, its predecessor marks its 30,000th trip around the world to monitor Earth's ocean. |
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June 13, 2008 Moses Lake Part of Athlete TrainingJPL's Athlete (All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer) participated in NASA testing of future moon systems at Moses Lake, Washington. The two-week long trial concluded today (June 13). |
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June 12, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to MicroscopePhoenix sprinkled a spoonful of Martian soil Wednesday onto the sample wheel of the spacecraft's robotic microscope station, images received early Thursday confirmed. |
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June 12, 2008 International Mission Studying Sun to ConcludeUlysses, a joint NASA and European Space Agency mission to study the sun, will end on or about July 1, after 17 years of pioneering sun studies. |
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June 11, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Lander Has An Oven Full Of Martian SoilNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with Martian soil. |
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June 10, 2008 NASA Lander Will Sprinkle Martian Soil for Microscope to ViewThe team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to instruct the spacecraft in the next few days to use its Robotic Arm to sprinkle a spoonful of Martian soil onto a wheel that will rotate the sample into place for viewing by the spacecraft's Optical Microscope. |
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June 9, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Testing Sprinkle TechniqueEngineers are testing a revised method for delivering soil samples to laboratory instruments on Phoenix's deck now that researchers appreciate how clumpy the soil is at the landing site. |
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June 8, 2008 Phoenix Sifts for Samples, Continues Imaging Landing SiteOn Sunday, mechanical shakers inside the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer on Phoenix will attempt to loosen clumped soils on the device's screens to allow material to fall into the oven for analysis later in the week. |
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June 7, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Checking Soil PropertiesThe arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander released a handful of clumpy Martian soil onto a screened opening of a laboratory instrument on the spacecraft Friday, but the instrument did not confirm that any of the sample passed through the screen. |
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June 6, 2008 NASA Mars Lander Scoops First Soil Sample for Laboratory AnalysisNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander made its first dig into Martian soil for science studies and is poised to deliver the scoopful to a laboratory instrument on the lander deck. |
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June 6, 2008 JPL Instrument Surveys Quake AreaThis image, acquired on June 1, 2008, shows two of the new large landslide dams and lakes, which resulted from the Sichuan earthquake in China, May 12, 2008. |
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June 5, 2008 Highest Resolution View Ever From Mars Comes From NASA LanderA microscope on NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has taken images of dust and sand particles with the greatest resolution ever returned from another planet. |
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June 4, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Ready to Gather SamplesTwo practice rounds of digging and dumping the clumpy soil at the Martian arctic site this week gave scientists and engineers gathered at the University of Arizona confidence to begin using Phoenix's Robotic Arm to deliver soil samples to instruments on the lander deck. |
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June 4, 2008 Cassini Sees Collisions of Moons on Saturn's RingCassini scientists have discovered that the rapid changes in Saturn's F ring are due to small moons colliding with the ring. These results are reported in the June 5 issue of Nature. |
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June 3, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Retesting Release of Martian SoilEngineers and scientists operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided early today to repeat a practice test of releasing Martian soil from the scoop on the lander's Robotic Arm. |
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June 3, 2008 Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in Our GalaxyMore than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new "coming of age" portrait of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy. |
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June 3, 2008 Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go MissingNew images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing that it has just two major arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought to possess. |
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June 2, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Scoops Up Martian SoilOne week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's Robotic Arm. |
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June 1, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Lander Makes an Impression on MarsNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached out and touched the Martian soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the lander's experiments. |
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May 31, 2008 Camera on Arm Looks Beneath NASA Mars LanderA view of the ground underneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander adds to evidence that descent thrusters dispersed overlying soil and exposed a harder substrate that may be ice. |
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May 30, 2008 NASA'S Phoenix Lander Robotic Arm Camera Sees Possible IceTUCSON, Ariz.-- Scientists have discovered what may be ice that was exposed when soil was blown away as NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars last Sunday, May 25. |
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May 29, 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Arm and Other Tools to WorkNASA's Mars lander is returning more detailed images from the Martian surface and is now preparing its instruments for science operations. |
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May 29, 2008 Scientists Hold Seance for SupernovaAstronomers have unearthed secrets from the grave of a star that blasted apart in a supernova explosion long ago. |
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May 29, 2008 Cassini Flies By Titan, Readies for Extended TourOn May 28, the Cassini spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Saturn's moon Titan, the last flyby of the original four-year tour, but Cassini's exploration of Saturn will continue for two more years. |
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May 28, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded to Unstow ArmScientists leading NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson sent commands to unstow its robotic arm and take more images of its landing site early today. |
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May 28, 2008 Strange Ring Found Circling Dead StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens. |
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May 27, 2008 NASA Satellites Illuminate Pollution's Influence on Clouds, ClimateUsing data from instruments in a constellation of NASA satellites, scientists have discovered that they can see deep inside of clouds. |
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May 27, 2008 Orbiter Relays Second-Day Information From NASA Mars LanderNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully received information from the Phoenix Mars Lander Tuesday evening and relayed the information to Earth. |
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May 27, 2008 NASA Mars Lander Prepares to Move ArmNASA's Phoenix Lander is ready to begin moving its robotic arm, first unlatching its wrist and then flexing its elbow. |
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May 27, 2008 Experts Discuss How to Find Another EarthOn May 29 and 30, astronomers and scientists from all around the world will gather in Pasadena to discuss how we might find another Earth, and how we might detect possible life on it. |
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May 26, 2008 Camera on Mars Orbiter Snaps Phoenix During LandingA telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25. |
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May 25, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Reports Good Health After Mars LandingA NASA spacecraft today sent pictures showing itself in good condition after making the first successful landing in a polar region of Mars. |
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May 25, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft Lands at Martian Arctic SitePASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm. |
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May 25, 2008 Mars Pulls Phoenix inNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander sped on Sunday morning toward its arrival at Mars, as the tug of the Red Planet's gravity accelerated the craft during the final day of its trip from Earth to Mars. |
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May 25, 2008 No Final Nudge Needed for PhoenixNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will reach Mars this evening with no further adjustments to its flight path. |
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May 24, 2008 Phoenix Lander Update: No Saturday Night ManeuverMission controllers for NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided Saturday afternoon, May 24, to forgo the second-to-last opportunity for adjusting the spacecraft's flight path. |
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May 23, 2008 Phoenix Preview: Guided Tour of Mars LandingCatch this guided tour with Rob Manning, chief engineer for JPL's Mars Program, as he describes a simulation of the Mars Phoenix landing, scheduled for Sunday, May 25. |
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May 22, 2008 Phoenix Spacecraft on Course for May 25 Mars LandingWith three days and 3 million miles left to fly before arriving at Mars, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is on track for its destination in the Martian arctic. |
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May 22, 2008 Conference to Feature JPL Research on Earth's Air and WaterJPL scientists will discuss such topics as air quality and Earth's water cycle at next week's American Geophysical Union meeting in Florida. |
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May 22, 2008 New Red Spot Glows on Jupiter's SurfaceA new red spot on Jupiter has been captured by the JPL-built and designed Wide Field and Planetary 2 Camera, onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This makes for three red spots, or high turbulence storms, on Jupiter. |
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May 21, 2008 High Winds in Jupiter's Little Red SpotJupiter's Little Red Spot, one of the solar system's largest and newest storms, also has some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet. These results, co-authored by several JPL scientists, are published in the June issue of the Astronomical Journal. |
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May 20, 2008 Joint NASA-French Satellite to Track Trends in Sea Level, ClimateA satellite that will help scientists better monitor and understand rises in global sea level is undergoing final preparations for a June 15 launch. |
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May 20, 2008 Maps of Saturn's Moon Dione Now AvailableA detailed map of Saturn's fractured moon Dione, made from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is available today, along with a series of atlases of the icy moon. |
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May 19, 2008 Closing in on Mars: Course Slightly AdjustedPhoenix successfully performed a maneuver on May 17 to adjust its course slightly toward the center of the approved landing area. |
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May 19, 2008 Mars Phoenix on Facebook and TwitterJPL has a page on social-networking site Facebook and is also using micro-blogging site Twitter. |
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May 19, 2008 Follow Events on Phoenix Mars Landing BlogPhoenix mission members are now updating our blog as landing day approaches. We will be blogging from JPL's mission control on Sunday, May 25, as the spacecraft touches down on Mars. |
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May 16, 2008 NASA Briefings and TV Coverage Schedule for Phoenix Mars LandingNASA news briefings, live commentary and updates before and after the scheduled Sunday, May 25 arrival of the agency's Phoenix Mars Lander will be available on NASA Television and on the Web. |
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May 16, 2008 Destination Mars: Entry, Descent and LandingIt will be a real nail-biter on May 25, 2008, for engineers, as the Phoenix spacecraft performs a series of challenging maneuvers right before it lands on Mars. |
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May 15, 2008 NASA Satellite Finds Interior of Mars Is ColderNew observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought. |
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May 14, 2008 Latino JPL Engineers To Inspire Students in WebcastSix JPL engineers are included in a live Webcast about engineering opportunities in the space program on Thursday, May 15. |
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May 14, 2008 Phoenix Landing Events ScheduleThis is a list of events during and around the Phoenix landing on Mars. |
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May 14, 2008 Wandering Poles on Europa Point to OceanGlobal mapping of unusual large circular features on Jupiter's moon Europa reveals the moon is even more unstable than previously thought, and provides independent confirmation of a water ocean not far beneath its icy shell. |
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May 13, 2008 NASA Phoenix Mission Ready For Mars LandingNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to end its long journey and begin a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of Martian soil and buried ice. |
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May 13, 2008 Cassini's Radar Peers Through Titan's HazeCassini completed a successful flyby of Titan on May 12, for the first of two such flybys that will wrap up the original four-year mission. |
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May 9, 2008 Phoenix Flying True Enough to Skip One Scheduled AdjustmentNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continues on course for its May 25 arrival at Mars. |
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May 9, 2008 Intense Testing Paved Phoenix Road to MarsWhen NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander descends to the surface of the Red Planet on May 25, few will be watching as closely as those who have spent years planning, analyzing and conducting tests to prepare for the dramatic and nerve-wracking event. |
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May 8, 2008 Ulysses Team Recognized with International AwardThe Ulysses mission operations team has won an international award for its outstanding contributions to the joint ESA/NASA observatory mission, now orbiting the poles of the sun. |
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May 7, 2008 Saturn Does the Wave in Upper AtmosphereTwo decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. |
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May 6, 2008 Mars Orbiter Eyes Dust Devils at Phoenix Landing SiteNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an image of dust devils -- swirling dust storms -- near the landing site for the Mars Phoenix lander on the northern Martian plains. |
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May 5, 2008 NASA Kepler Mission Offers Opportunity to Send Names Into SpaceHere's your chance to have your name on board the spacecraft that could discover the first known Earth-like planet beyond our solar system. |
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May 5, 2008 Tropical Cyclone Nargis Rakes BurmaThe tropical cyclone that devastated Burma over the weekend is seen in this infrared image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder. Areas in purple represent the high, cold cloud tops that make up the top of Nargis. |
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May 5, 2008 Santa Monica High Wins National Science BowlSanta Monica High School has won the National Science Bowl in Washington. This is the first time the winner of JPL's regional Science Bowl has also placed first in the national competition. |
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May 2, 2008 Titan's Smoggy Sand GrainsNASA scientist Jason Barnes says Titan and Earth have much in common, but not when it comes to sand. |
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May 2, 2008 All That Cassini JazzA musician has made music out of the eerie sounds around Saturn recorded by the Cassini spacecraft. |
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May 2, 2008 New Image Gallery Has an Eye for BeautyJPL's new online Space Gallery captures the beauty of Earth, the solar system and the universe in a single web site. Features include a scrollable image navigation and a toggle to see slide shows. |
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April 30, 2008 Ocean Survey Spacecraft Arrives at Launch SiteA spacecraft designed to continue a long-term survey of Earth's oceans has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., for final launch preparations. |
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April 30, 2008 Jupiter's Shadow Sculpts Its RingsUsing data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, scientists have shown that Jupiter's shadow is shaping the planet's rings and the orbits of particles within the rings. |
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April 29, 2008 NASA Spacecraft Tracks Raging Saturn StormCassini watches as a powerful electrical storm rages on Saturn with lightning bolts 10,000 times more powerful than those found on Earth. |
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April 29, 2008 NASA Experiment Planned for European Mars MissionNASA is funding work on an instrument that could check for biologically produced chemicals on Mars. The device may hitch a ride on Europe's 2013 ExoMars Rover mission. |
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April 28, 2008 Galaxy Evolution Explorer Celebrates Five Years in SpaceSince its launch five years ago, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer has photographed hundreds of millions of galaxies in ultraviolet light. |
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April 24, 2008 Wild Galaxies CollideNASA's Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 18th anniversary with a new collection of images showcasing colliding galaxies, including some captured by JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. |
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April 23, 2008 Shoulder Motor Balks on Opportunity Rover's Robotic ArmA small motor in the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity that began stalling occasionally more than two years ago has become more troublesome recently. |
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April 22, 2008 JPL Invites Public to Open HouseAt this free, all-day event on May 3 and 4, visitors can watch 700-pound robots glide under artificial stars in JPL's Robodome and get an up-close view of full-scale models of Mars rovers. |
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April 22, 2008 JPL Earth Scientists Reflect on Earth DayIn commemoration of Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, we asked JPL Earth scientists to reflect on the event and what it means to them. |
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April 21, 2008 Larger Pacific Climate Event Helps Current La Nina LingerBoosted by the influence of a larger climate event in the Pacific, one of the strongest La Ninas in many years is slowly weakening but continues to blanket the Pacific Ocean near the equator. |
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April 18, 2008 Ocean-Monitoring Satellite One Step Closer to LaunchThe Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 satellite, which will study Earth's weather and climate, is packed for its journey to Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Launch is set for June 15. |
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April 17, 2008 Saturn Images Showcased in New York CityA selection of the best images from Saturn, its rings and moons will appear in an exhibition opening on April 26 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. |
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April 17, 2008 New Atlases Use NASA Data to Chart Ocean WindsResearchers have compiled years of data from NASA's QuikScat satellite to create three new atlases of ocean wind patterns around the globe. |
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April 17, 2008 Mars Radar Opens a New Dimension in Planet ExplorationA radar instrument co-sponsored by NASA on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has looked beneath the surface of Mars and opened up a new dimension for planetary exploration. |
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April 16, 2008 NASA Statement on Student Asteroid CalculationsThe Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has not changed its current estimates for the very low probability (1 in 45,000) of an Earth impact by the asteroid Apophis in 2036. |
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April 16, 2008 Stellar Birth in the Galactic WildernessA new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows baby stars sprouting in the backwoods of a galaxy. |
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April 15, 2008 NASA Extends Cassini's Grand Tour of SaturnThe historic spacecraft, whose stunning discoveries and images have revolutionized our knowledge of Saturn and its moons, gets two more years at the ringed planet. |
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April 10, 2008 NASA Spacecraft Fine Tunes Course for Mars LandingNASA engineers have adjusted the flight path of the Phoenix Mars Lander, setting the spacecraft on course for its May 25 landing on the Red Planet. |
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April 10, 2008 Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar SphereMillions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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April 10, 2008 NASA Technologies Enter Space Technology Hall of FameThe Space Foundation today is inducting three NASA-developed technologies into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. |
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April 10, 2008 Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking ExplosionJPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an optical image of what was a titanic gamma-ray blast. |
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April 9, 2008 JPL Wins Award From U.S. Small Business AdministrationThe U.S. Small Business Administration has named JPL as the winner of its 2008 Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence in the research and development category. |
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April 9, 2008 NASA Spacecraft Images Mars Moon in Color and in 3DA new stereo view of Phobos, the larger and inner of Mars' two tiny moons, has been captured by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars. |
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April 4, 2008 No Speed Limit on MarsIt's a good thing there's no speed limit on Mars, because the next parachute to fly to the red planet will deploy faster than you can legally drive on a California freeway! |
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April 4, 2008 Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Belches A Toxic BrewThe summit of Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island developed a new vent in March and produced its first explosion in 84 years. The ash plume of the new vent is seen in this pair of recent infrared NASA satellite images. |
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April 3, 2008 Want to be a Cassini Scientist for a Day?If you're a student who's ever wondered what it's like to be a NASA scientist, look no further. |
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April 3, 2008 Stardust Stars on Earth as it Does in the HeavensWhile their spacecraft's journeys may have taken it more than halfway to Jupiter, members of the Stardust team have lately been doing some roaming of their own. |
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April 1, 2008 NASA Launches Airborne Study of Arctic Atmosphere, Air PollutionThis month, NASA begins the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. |
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March 31, 2008 Students Help Explore Mars through Innovative ProgramHigh school students in three states are working with Mars researchers on observations for an instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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March 26, 2008 Cassini Tastes Organic Material at Saturn's Geyser MoonNASA's Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus during a close flyby on March 12. |
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March 26, 2008 A Perspective on Life on Enceladus: A World of PossibilitiesCould microbial life exist inside Enceladus, where no sunlight reaches, photosynthesis is impossible and no oxygen is available? |
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March 24, 2008 High-Schoolers Go Into Overdrive at FIRST Robotics CompetitionFifty-two teams from high schools in Southern California, Arizona and New Hampshire competed in the Los Angeles FIRST Robotics Competition last Friday and Saturday. |
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March 20, 2008 Cassini Spacecraft Finds Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan's CrustNASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. |
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March 20, 2008 NASA Mission Finds New Clues to Guide Search for Life on MarsNASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has found evidence of salt deposits. These deposits point to places where water once was abundant and where evidence might exist of possible Martian life from the Red Planet's past. |
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March 19, 2008 Astronomers Detect First Organic Molecule on an ExoplanetA team of astronomers, led by JPL's Mark Swain, has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. |
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March 19, 2008 JPL's Mark Swain: Expert on Exoplanets and EspressoCoffee is one of the tools that Mark Swain, a JPL research scientist, uses to stay sharp when he studies exoplanets, or planets around other stars. |
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March 13, 2008 Cassini Flies Through Watery Plumes of Saturn MoonNASA's Cassini spacecraft performed a daring flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12, flying about 15 kilometers per second (32,000 mph) through icy water geyser-like jets. |
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March 13, 2008 Spitzer Finds Organics and Water Where New Planets May GrowResearchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered large amounts of simple organic gases and water vapor in a possible planet-forming region around an infant star, along with evidence that these molecules were created there. |
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March 13, 2008 JPL Technologies Chosen for Space Technology Hall of FamePASADENA, CALIF. -- Two technologies developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been selected for the Space Foundation's 2008 Space Technology Hall of Fame. |
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March 13, 2008 Cassini Gets Close-Up Views of EnceladusRaw, or unprocessed, images from Cassini's flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus are now available. The flyby occurred on Wed., March 12. |
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March 12, 2008 JPL Researchers Aboard Robotic Moon MissionTwo JPL researchers are among 24 selected to initiate new investigations and help measurements planned for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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March 12, 2008 Researchers Flex Artificial MusclesScientific researchers from around the world made a robotic fish swim, a synthetic flower bloom, and a giant metallic blimp fly using artificial muscles at an annual conference. |
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March 11, 2008 Blog With Cassini to EnceladusFollow along as Cassini team members update our blog about the flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Cassini makes its closest pass to the moon on Wednesday, Mar. 12. Add your comments. |
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March 10, 2008 Cassini Spacecraft to Dive Into Water Plume of Saturn MoonNASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12. |
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March 7, 2008 Scientists Solve 50-Year-Old Mystery of Oceans' Seismic 'Buzz'Scientists have solved a 50-year-old mystery by pinpointing a place in the North Atlantic where the energy of crashing ocean waves creates a continuous seismic "buzz." |
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March 6, 2008 Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have RingsNASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. |
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March 6, 2008 Home Planet Viewed From MarsNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this view of Earth and the moon with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera. Earth was 142 million kilometers (88 million miles) from Mars at the time. |
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March 3, 2008 NASA Spacecraft Photographs Avalanches on MarsPasadena, Calif. - A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's north pole. |
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March 3, 2008 JPL Helps Shoot for the Moon, Stars, Planets and MoreA giant telescope, galaxy maps, and laser beacons on Mars are only a few of the ideas that teams selected by NASA will study for the next generation of astronomy and astrophysics missions. |
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February 28, 2008 Spacecraft at Mars Prepare to Welcome New Kid on the BlockThree Mars spacecraft are adjusting their orbits to be over the right place at the right time to listen to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander as it enters the Martian atmosphere on May 25. |
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February 27, 2008 NASA Views Landing Site Through Eyes of Future Moon CrewNASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters (66 feet) per pixel. |
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February 27, 2008 Two Schools Rule at Robot MatchTwo Southern California schools captured top honors at a Lego robotics competition sponsored by JPL on Tuesday, Feb. 26. |
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February 26, 2008 Spitzer's Eyes Perfect for Spotting Diamonds in the SkyDiamonds may be rare on Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and the super-sensitive infrared eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are perfect for scouting them. |
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February 25, 2008 Cassini Images Huygens Landing SiteA little more than three years after the Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan, Cassini's radar instrument got another look at the landing area during a successful flyby on Feb. 22. |
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February 22, 2008 International Solar Mission to End Following Stellar PerformanceThe joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission to study the sun and its influence on surrounding space is likely to cease operations in the next few months. |
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February 20, 2008 Tests Underway for Kepler Mission Image DetectorsSensitive detectors that may help find habitable planets orbiting distant stars as part of NASA's Kepler Mission are undergoing tests at NASA Ames Research Center in Northern California. |
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February 19, 2008 Cassini Finds Mingling Moons May Share a Dark PastDespite the incredible diversity of Saturn's icy moons, theirs is a story of great interaction. |
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February 19, 2008 High Energy Electron Holes Reveal Unseen RingsGaps in the soup of high energy particles near the orbits of two of Saturn's tiny moons indicate that Saturn may be surrounded by undiscovered, near-invisible partial rings. |
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February 17, 2008 Many, Perhaps Most, Nearby Sun-Like Stars May Form Rocky PlanetsAstronomers have discovered that terrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like stars in our galaxy. |
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February 15, 2008 Mars Rovers Sharpen Questions About Livable ConditionsLike salt used as a preservative, high concentrations of dissolved minerals in the wet, early-Mars environment known from discoveries by NASA's Opportunity rover may have thwarted any microbes from developing or surviving. |
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February 15, 2008 NASA Sponsors Studies of Next Generation Astronomy MissionsJPL is involved in 15 of 19 science teams selected by NASA to conduct yearlong studies of new concepts for its next generation of major observatories. |
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February 13, 2008 Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on EarthSaturn's moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. |
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February 12, 2008 Astronomers Eye Ultra-Young, Bright Galaxy in Early UniverseNASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic "dark ages." |
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February 11, 2008 Spitzer Catches Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of DustNewborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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February 11, 2008 Santa Monica High Wins Science BowlSanta Monica High School won the Science Bowl held on Saturday, Feb. 9 at JPL. The school advances to the national competition, where science-savvy students wrestle with concepts like the laws of thermodynamics and quadratic functions. |
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February 8, 2008 JPL Scientists Earn Highest National Engineering HonorLee-Lueng Fu, a senior research scientist at JPL, and a former JPL scientist have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering -- among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer. |
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February 8, 2008 Ocean-Observing Satellites Help Break Current RecordsTwo different teams of ocean adventurers set records this winter crossing the Tasman Sea. Both used maps of ocean currents made possible by ocean-observing satellites. |
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February 8, 2008 Students Paint a Window to SaturnArt students have literally left their mark at JPL with a gigantic, multi-wall mural of the Cassini spacecraft's latest discoveries about Saturn and its moons. |
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February 8, 2008 CloudSat Profiles Tornado OutbreakThe intense thunderstorms responsible for this week's deadly outbreak of tornadoes in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas were imaged by the Cloud Profiling Radar on NASA's CloudSat satellite on February 5. |
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February 8, 2008 Through the Eye of the Storm: A Look Back at 2007's Hurricane SeasonNASA satellites were on the watch as the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season unfolded. |
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February 7, 2008 Scientists Study 'Plumbing' in Plumes of EnceladusScientists on the Cassini mission have become out-of-this world "plumbers" as they try to piece together what's happening inside the "pipes" feeding the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus. |
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February 5, 2008 Saturn Has a 'Giant Sponge'One of Saturn's rings does housecleaning, soaking up material gushing from the fountains on Saturn's tiny ice moon Enceladus, according to new observations from the Cassini spacecraft. |
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January 31, 2008 NASA and the Beatles Celebrate Anniversaries by Beaming Song 'Across the Universe' Into Deep SpaceFor the first time ever, NASA will beam a song - The Beatles "Across the Universe" -- directly into deep space at 4 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, Feb. 4. |
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January 31, 2008 Journey to Saturn From Your ComputerWant a peek at Saturn as seen from space? A new interactive 3-D viewer allows users to travel to Saturn and see the ringed world the way the Cassini spacecraft does. |
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January 31, 2008 NASA Finds Glacial Sediments Adding to Louisiana Coast's SinkingA study by NASA and Louisiana State University scientists finds that sediments deposited into the Mississippi River delta thousands of years ago when North America's glaciers retreated are contributing to the ongoing sinking of Louisiana's coastline. |
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January 31, 2008 Cassini Finds Rhythm in Saturn's RingsOrder can be found in the most unexpected places, as demonstrated by our neighbor three planets down. |
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January 30, 2008 Public Invited to Celebrate America's First Satellite, VirtuallyJPL's Explorer 1 site features archival video footage, an interactive peek inside the satellite and a downloadable, in-depth book about the era and the mission. |
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January 29, 2008 Asteroid Zooms by EarthAs expected, Asteroid 2007 TU24 made its closest approach to Earth at 12:33 a.m. today, Jan. 29 (3:33 a.m. Eastern time), and is now headed away from our planet. |
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January 28, 2008 Linked Hawaiian Telescopes Catch a Nova SurpriseFirst results from NASA's Keck Interferometer in Hawaii are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful nova explosions. |
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January 25, 2008 NASA Scientists Get First Images of Earth Flyby AsteroidScientists at JPL have obtained the first images of asteroid 2007 TU24 using high-resolution radar data. |
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January 25, 2008 Cosmic Suburbia Is a Better Breeding Ground for StarsNew observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that galaxies prefer to raise stars in cosmic suburbia rather than in "big cities." |
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January 25, 2008 Opportunity Marks Four Years on MarsDuring four months prior to the fourth anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined rocks in the western portion of Victoria Crater. |
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January 25, 2008 Stardust Comet Dust Resembles Asteroid MaterialsContrary to scientists' expectations, much of the comet dust returned by NASA's Stardust mission formed very close to the young sun and was somehow differentiated from the other materials that are believed to have formed in the early solar system. |
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January 24, 2008 Giant Storm Eruption at Jupiter Unearths a Buried PastScientists around the globe have observed an astonishing and rare change in Jupiter's atmosphere -- a huge disturbance churning in the middle northern latitudes of the planet as two giant storms erupted. |
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January 24, 2008 Asteroid to Make Rare Close Flyby of Earth January 29Scientists are monitoring the orbit of asteroid 2007 TU24. |
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January 23, 2008 Orbiting Camera Details Dramatic Wind Action on MarsMars' atmosphere is challenging scientists to explain complex, wind-sculpted landforms seen with unprecedented detail in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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January 23, 2008 Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Up, Nearly Matches Greenland LossIce loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new, comprehensive study by NASA and university scientists. |
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January 17, 2008 NASA Tsunami Research Makes Waves in Science CommunityA wave of new NASA research on tsunamis may improve existing warning systems and proposes a potentially groundbreaking new theory. |
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January 16, 2008 JPL Nanotubes Help Advance Brain Tumor ResearchPASADENA, Calif.- The potential of carbon nanotubes to diagnose and treat brain tumors is being explored through a partnership between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and City of Hope, a leading cancer research and treatment center in Duarte, Calif. |
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January 15, 2008 NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind ReadersNASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind. |
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January 14, 2008 Ulysses Spacecraft Flies Over Sun's North PoleThe Ulysses spacecraft today is making a rare flyby of the sun's north pole. Unlike any other spacecraft, Ulysses is able to sample winds at the sun's poles. |
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January 11, 2008 Astronomers Rule Out Possibility of Asteroid Impact on MarsAs expected, scientists at JPL's Near-Earth Object Office have further refined the trajectory estimate for asteroid 2007 WD5 and ruled out any possibility of a Mars impact on Jan. 30. |
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January 10, 2008 Even Thin Galaxies Can Grow Fat Black HolesNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected plump black holes where least expected -- skinny galaxies. |
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January 9, 2008 JPL to Host High-Tech Small-Business ConferenceNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host the 20th annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on March 4 and 5 at the Radisson Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. |
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January 8, 2008 Astronomers Present Results about 'The Moth' and a Bizarre RingNews about a moth-like star system and the first double Einstein ring was presented today at an astronomy conference in Austin, Texas. (Jan. 10) |
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January 7, 2008 Cassini Completes First Titan Visit of the New YearThe Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Titan on Jan. 5. Its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer mapped the Huygens probe's landing site, now in direct sunlight. |
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January 3, 2008 Hot Cyclones Churn at Both Ends of SaturnDespite more than a decade of winter darkness, Saturn's north pole is home to an unexpected hot spot remarkably similar to one at the planet's sunny south pole. |
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January 2, 2008 JPL Rose Parade Float Salutes 50 Years of ExplorationPlanets and spacecraft sprung forth from JPL's float in this year's Rose Parade. The float's theme highlighted the upcoming 50th anniversary of the JPL-designed and built Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite to orbit Earth. |
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January 2, 2008 Mars Rover Keeping the Spirit at FourNASA's Spirit rover is spending its fourth anniversary on Mars at the northern edge of a low plateau. It landed on Mars Jan. 4, 2004, Universal Time (Jan. 3, 2004, Pacific Time). |
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